US History - ABCTE questions with 100% correct answers 2024/2025

US History - ABCTEPre-Columbian - correct answer The age of history in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans (Columbus) Jamestown - correct answer 1607 - The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia. Located about 60 miles from the Chesapeake Bay to avoid being an easy target for Spanish explorers also trying to claim land. Who were the colonists at Jamestown employed by? - correct answer Virginia Company Who fought the Pequot War? - correct answer Dutch, English, indigenous Pequots What was of interest for fighting the Pequot War? - correct answer fur trading Where was the Pequot War fought? - correct answer Connecticut River Valley When was the Pequot War - correct answer 1630s What caused the Pequot War? - correct answer English trader, John Oldham, was killed in 1636. Massachusetts Bay Colony retaliated against Pequots. Other native tribes form alliances on both sides Pequot War: 1637 - correct answer John Mason and Mohican and Narragansett warriors attack Pequot fort in Mystic, CT. 500 Killed Pequot War: 1638 - correct answer British track down remaining Pequots. Mohicans kill Pequot leader Sassacus Virginia - founded - correct answer 1607 Massachusetts - founded - correct answer 1620 New Hampshire - founded - correct answer 1623 Maryland - founded - correct answer 1634 Connecticut - founded - correct answer 1636 Rhode Island - founded - correct answer 1636 Delaware - founded - correct answer 1638 North Carolina - founded - correct answer 1653 South Carolina - founded - correct answer 1663 New Jersey - founded - correct answer 1664 New York - founded - correct answer 1664 Pennsylvania - founded - correct answer 1682 Georgia - founded - correct answer 1752 John Smith - correct answer first leader of Jamestown. Forced to return to England in 1609 after accident with gunpowder. Wrote books about New England and the colonies, sparking further English interest William Penn - correct answer Quaker. Granted land in the New World by Charles II as a payment of a debt owed to Penn's father. He wanted his new settlement to be a haven for Quakers, established free